<div dir="ltr"><div style>Hey guys,</div><div style><br></div><div style>I can't find a good explanation for it, so I'm asking here; why is vexpress selected by the multiplatform kernel option?</div><div style><br>
</div><div style>I can't see any particular reason except that it pulls in a ton of select items which would be fairly common for multiplatform kernel, although in our use case (i.MX) all the relevant common options (CPU_V7, COMMON_CLK etc.) are selected through the proper arch support.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>We're getting some weird panics from a function we can't find and the simplest way we can think of to get rid of them are don't compile in vexpress - I would like to upstream this (I can't think of any reason multiplatform would *depend* on the vexpress-specific parts) but I would like to know the impact of what I am thinking of doing before I think about it further.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>BTW the panics are in vexpress_sysreg_init_leds - which is a function I can't find at all in the kernel. I don't know how on earth this function could ever be being called, but it started coming up simply because we put "loglevel=N" on the kernel line (where N is whatever we wanted it to be for the correct loglevel of course). Since I can't find the function, I am at a loss why this even comes up. It seems it got removed about a month ago.... </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Assuming the Mayans are causing kernel errors for us or something's not being cleaned up properly, I think we can get around the panic eventually, but I still would really like to remove the dependency on a specific platform which would be the true fix to "vexpress init does odd things on boot if you're not running vexpress" problem for people who have custom multiplatform kernels.</div>
<div><br></div>-- <br clear="all"><div>Matt Sealey <<a href="mailto:matt@genesi-usa.com">matt@genesi-usa.com</a>><br>Product Development Analyst, Genesi USA, Inc.</div><br>
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